Primary Recommendation

WSP - Acquisitive engineering consultancy with strong growth record

December 2006

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One of our more successful hunting grounds has been the white collar world of engineering consultancies and we fondly recall our top performer, White Young Green, whose shares have almost doubled in just two and a half short years. To be fair, even a monkey throwing random darts at this sector could hardly fail to make money as companies have profited from the combination of a strong economy and a seemingly bottomless pit of government infrastructure spend. Given such an encouraging backdrop, we feel the time is now right to feature WSP, one of the larger multi-disciplined consulting engineers operating in this space and we found its long-time finance director, Malcolm Paul, in very good heart when we met with him last month. WS ...

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